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Ashdown’s successes as a relatable man, a tactician and a statesman should not blind us to his strategic failures ...Contrary to expectations Ashdown won the seat in 1983 ... On returning to take up his position in the Lords, Ashdown’s subsequent participation in Liberal Democrat party activities proved disastrous in at least three respects....

LordAshdown, who spent most of his childhood in Northern Ireland and served as a soldier in the province during the 1970s, was laid to rest in his home village of Norton-sub-Hamdon ... his time in the forces – was knighted and then made a peer as LordAshdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon....

The Brexiteer faced chants of “shame” and “vile” after he heckled Lib Dem MP Layla Moran as she told MPs LordAshdown had been “very concerned” about Brexit in his “final weeks” ...LordAshdown, 77, a former Lib Dem leader and ex-Royal ......

Andrew Bridgen has been branded "disgraceful" for shouting "from the grave" in the House of Commons while Lib DemLayla Moran shared Brexit concerns that LordAshdown had in his final days. LordAshdown, who had been suffering from bladder cancer, died in December at the age of 77....

LordAshdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, formerly Sir PaddyAshdown, or just plain Paddy, made the Lib Dems a political force that could not be ignored at Westminster during the late 1990s and into the next millennium ...Ashdown retorted ... At the time of the 2001 ­general election, Ashdown was elevated to the peerage as LordAshdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon....

LordAshdown's father was an Irish-born British Army colonel in India...Later, LordAshdown served with the Royal Marines as a commando, spending the last years of his military career in Northern Ireland ... Mr Ford, who knew LordAshdown through the ties between their parties, recalled one occasion when he spent time with LordAshdown....

LordAshdown pictured in in Taunton on the day that the 1997 General Election was announced (Barry Batchelor/PA). After stepping down as leader, Ashdown, who was MP for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, was first knighted and then made a peer as LordAshdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon when he quit the Commons....